Studying the Arabian peninsula and with the help of NASA's satellites experts will be able to understand how people used to travel 100,000 years ago. It also tell how climate change from a fertile to a desert area. Professor Petraglia knows how important the Arabian Peninsula is; also he will be leading the project of excavating and studying different sites there. The target is to change archaeologists idea of this land not being fertile by studying site like Yemen, UAE, Oman and parts of Saudi Arabia. African tools were found in Bab Al Mandab that guided the archaeologists to the methods and areas they travelled back then. First is studying the water sources and lakes through the pictures of the area provided by NASA, and then the challenging part which is to foloow these images through the weather conditions. A lake location was found and it showed the lifestyle of people who lived next to it 100,000 years ago. The study will show how people made it through the weather change through the past two million years of mankind.
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